#wilbert

"Your owner says you can come and help me for a while, would you like that?"

"Yes please sir!"

Book 38 - Wilbert the Forest Engine- Percy's Porridge

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Speedpaint Video! Read the description to learn more about the artwork^^

Lol but no, seriously; just noticed something and now it has me wanting to choose it because, huh, that's kinda weird...maybe even intriguing. Now I could definitely be reading into it wrong because I cant read your mind and know what your plans are for the story or just how strong we can get buuuutt...

During the temple visit at the beginning when talking to priestess, I notice fire is the only one she acts a bit hesitant to really explain to us. As if "they run hot" is all she really knows and there's nothing much to it. At first I'm like well I mean it's such a common affinity so maybe shes just genuinely has no care or deep opinion on it, right?

But then, Wilbert goes into more detail and he's about to say something-- "they have this-" yet the priestess comes back and once again cuts the info short. Which now has me curious on if there is more to fire affinities than she's comfortable sharing..and what is it Wilbert was about to say.

Am I reading too much into it? Is this spoilery territory? or def something to keep an eye on?

Here's a Dandy's World OC!

In the beginning we were banished/And then we stoked the fires -> exiling and revellion

We found this failed city project-> ravine as failed abandoned mine

There it lay in all it's glory/We took our refuge in the shelter of the quarry/You'd bring your dad's guitar and swipe a couple forties/We'd pass them back and forth and sing each other stories-> :( crimeboys. Wilbur’s ability as leader to raly and inspire . Campire and guitar and his soul torch cigs

We'd spend our days composing eulogies/To everything we used to be/Before the crash -> clinging to old and my lmanbug

And with laughter Arielle recited sonnets/Shortly after Darian would quote them scripture -> Wilbur and techno (art of war)

We looked around and found these rock walls were a fortress/That we built with nothing but our words _> twisting. The flash of buttons and words on walls as the ravine starts to not feel like refugeu

We'd duck down when we heard the sound /And the machines drew near/So sure that we could wait them out -> approaching war impedimg on warmth and safety. Bc they drawn out of quarry/pogtopia

So with our stories finally spent We began to roam Could wander forty years and yet Never find our home We'll crawl upon our hands and knees And embrace this curse As prodigals and refugees In the wasted earth

Jane Doe: MINNESOTAAA (Not that it was in doubt.) I just think wish we had seen more of it. Show her being a snowball fight master on Mount Whitehead!

Scoutmaster Lumpus: Wisconsin. His parents sound it, and he sort of does too, and I’m sure his passion for fishing and boating had its origins on the Great Lakes. A lot of you know I headcanon his middle name to be Crawford, after the Wisconsin county, which is actually landlocked. (Isn’t that just his luck?)

Edward Platypus: Again, basically canon: a New Yorker, specifically Southern New York. The Bronx, or Queens, if not the City itself? The various accents are supposed to be distinct from each other but I’m not familiar enough to say which is his. One way or another, he’s got one of the stronger ones (strawnguh ones) for sure. He seems to come from wealth. In my headcanon, the Platypus family own a huge New York-based construction company. That also explains Edward’s naturally-occurring foreman schtick in “Bowling for Dinosaurs.” (“I WANNA EXCAVATE DUH WHOLE CAMP! DIS BOWLIN’ ALLEY’S IN THE WAY’A THE DINOSAW BONES, GET IT OUTTA HERE!”)

Samson Clogmeyer: Canonically “ten minutes away” from Camp Kidney per “S is For Crazy.” So depends on where you place that. Me, I figure if CL is based on Joe Murray’s childhood camping experiences in California, it’s probably California. I’ve got friends who put it in Wisconsin, and I can vibe with that! Samson’s got a sort of faint, Wisconsiny accent himself. “My mah’m.” “Some mahrbles… and a box’a cereal!”

Clam: *gulp* …Florida. He wears a tropical shirt in “Where’s Lazlo?” and is fascinated by rocks. You could argue that narrows it down… not at all. Idk. He’s got that Florida aura in him. (The good kind.)

Raj: Raj of course comes from India, apparently from the fictional “Kafizzle River region.” Rivers tend to be set in valleys, and towns form naturally within rivers and valleys, so I posit there’s a “Kafizzle River Valley,” and he comes from there. His family is “well off” and he’s shown to live in a mansion in “Tusk Wizard” (assuming the elephant in the fantasy sequence is indeed him,) so he likely comes from one of the richest if not the richest families in the valley. (His mom also has the softest buns in the whole village. Phrasing his.)

Gretchen: She doesn’t have much of an accent but I can see her coming from some swampy Southern state or another alligators typically inhabit. Georgia? Louisiana? We can probably say she’s not a Florida native because her parents are “enjoying Florida” as a visit rather than living there full-time, in “Hard Day’s Samson.” But maybe she’s also from whatever state Camp Kidney and Acorn Flats are in too, because one of her grandmothers recreationally swims, (if not lives) in a pond not far from them in “Taking Care of Gretchen.”

Wilbert, a.k.a. Beavy: Again, a New Yorker. “So, Monster, where ya frum?” (Fun fact: that was one of my first verbal stims, that line.)

Slinkman: He claims the swamp in “Edward’s Big Bag” was “just like coming home,” so wherever is typically swampy, that’s a plausible place. I know it’s a single throwaway line but it opened soooooo many possibilities. I wish we had seen more done with it! (also please check out @/deadbeandrop’s art of his parents. i’m looking so respectfully at slinky’s dad.)

Dave and Ping Pong: A lot of people claim it’s implied they’re from Canada but I don’t see it. Those of you who have read my “Loonlings” fanfiction on AO3 know I see them as being either from a New York or Connecticut suburb. I can’t describe it, but I often work in Sleepy Hollow, and the place just screams “them” to me. Maybe they live in a fictionalized Sleepy Hollow with a Murrayverse-esque name like… Dozy Hole.